Apache Maven JAR Plugin Version 2.5 Released

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JAR Plugin, version 2.5

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
4  <version>2.5</version>
5</plugin>

Release Notes - Maven JAR Plugin - Version 2.5

Bugs:

  • MJAR-157 - forceUpdate documentation is insufficient
  • MJAR-162 - skipIfEmpty not work for test-jar goal and empty directories
  • MJAR-167 - skipIfEmpty outputs incorrect logging nessage

Improvements:

  • MJAR-168 - Update to latest plexus-archiver
  • MJAR-170 - please add property 'maven.jar.classifier'
  • MJAR-175 - Documentation problem for test-jar
  • MJAR-176 - Usage page should (only) describe default behavior

Tasks:

  • MJAR-158 - use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations
  • MJAR-171 - Remove deprecated mojo jar-sign and jar-sign-verify
  • MJAR-173 - Check correctness of declared deps

-- The Apache Maven Team.